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Taylor Branch
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Taylor Branch

Taylor Branch is the bestselling author of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63; Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65; At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968; and The Clinton Tapes. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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The King Years will be released on August 13, 2013 in Trade Paperback
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Jan 16, 2013
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Chapter 1 from The King Years
Jan 08, 2013
The King Years is now available in Audio Download, eBook
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The King Years will be released on January 08, 2013 in Audio Download, eBook
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The King Years will be released on January 08, 2013 in Hardcover, Audio Download, eBook, Enhanced eBook
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The King Years is now available in Hardcover, Audio Download, eBook, Enhanced eBook
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The King Years (Enhanced Edition) will be released on January 08, 2013 in eBook, Enhanced eBook
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The King Years (Enhanced Edition) is now available in eBook, Enhanced eBook
Jan 08, 2013
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The King Years
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The King Years will be released on January 01, 2013 in Audio Download
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ESPN.com, May 31, 2013
...though not about NCAA cases. "The Cartel: Inside the Rise and Imminent Fall of the NCAA," by Taylor Branch. This is a sobering account, though I take issue with some of its conclusions. For someone so inside college football, it's good to read what those...
Huffington Post, May 24, 2013
...bent on revenge and he intends to get Moby-Dick. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years by Taylor Branch (2007) Pulitzer Prize Winner Google Books: Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot...
Huffington Post, May 14, 2013
...Aurelius. • The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker. • Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963, Taylor Branch. • Living History, Hillary Rodham Clinton. • Lincoln, David Herbert Donald. • The Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot. •...
Santa Barbara Independent, May 2, 2013
...sons of bitches [laughs]. They are making me look bad. At least I’m producing faster that [historian] Taylor Branch. I think it took him 16 years to write Parting the Waters. [laughs] Do you still have to pitch your books or do you have an ongoing...
Advertiser Democrat, April 18, 2013
...Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures;” Max Boot, “Invisible Armies: an Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare;” Taylor Branch, “The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement;” Siobhan Dolan, “Healthy Mom, Healthy Babies;”...
Huffington Post, April 14, 2013
...confirmed writers, provided last week by the Library of Congress: Renowned authors and poets Margaret Atwood, Marie Arana, Taylor Branch, Don DeLillo, Khaled Hosseini, Barbara Kingsolver, Brad Meltzer, Joyce Carol Oates, Katherine Paterson and U.S. Poet...
DePauw University, April 10, 2013
...is studded with prominent writers and poets." Others scheduled to appear are Joyce Carol Oates, Margaret Atwood,Taylor Branch, and U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey. "All together, there will be more than 100 speakers and there isn't much drop-off...
Derby Telegraph, June 6, 2013
...electric before the bedroom tax. I think trying to reclassify rooms would be a good idea." Charlie Taylor, branch secretary of the Socialist Party in Derby, said that a first meeting for bedroom tax opponents had been held in Chaddesden, with another...
Derby Telegraph, June 6, 2013
...electric before the bedroom tax. I think trying to reclassify rooms would be a good idea." Charlie Taylor, branch secretary of the Socialist Party in Derby, said that a first meeting for bedroom tax opponents had been held in Chaddesden, with another...
Derby Telegraph, June 6, 2013
...electric before the bedroom tax. I think trying to reclassify rooms would be a good idea." Charlie Taylor, branch secretary of the Socialist Party in Derby, said that a first meeting for bedroom tax opponents had been held in Chaddesden, with another...
Home News Tribune, June 4, 2013
...is the list of graduates: A-C: Paige Altrui, Mahogany Aminzia, Lauren Appleby, Gabriela Arias, Alexa Baglione, Dylan Blanchard, Taylor Branch, Emily Bridges, Janeen Browne, Natalie Camponovo, Erika Charnley, Katelizabeth Chin, Martha Coacher, Jordan...
Pine Bluff Commercial News, June 4, 2013
...Jefferson Regional Medical Center. He was born October 13, 1924 in Pine Bluff to Charlie Francis and Bertie Taylor Branch. A lifetime resident of Pine Bluff, he attended Watson Chapel Schools before entering the military in 1943. After his military...
Reuters UK, June 3, 2013
...Below is an unedited transcript of the , Mayor of Newark, NJ, in April. Paul Smalera: Earlier today I had a great conversation with Cory Booker, the Mayor of Newark, New Jersey. Let?s have a look. Mayor Booker, thank you so much for being here with me....
Reuters India, June 3, 2013
...from Birmingham Jail, but what people don’t know and if you read some great accounts of this, Taylor Branch’s book and some others, he wasn’t succeeding. He couldn’t get people to organize. He didn’t have Twitter or Facebook. He didn’t have a...